Narcissus in a Blue and White Vase

1864

Sir Edward John Poynter

Artist, British, 1836 - 1919

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    watercolor and gouache on wove paper

  • Credit Line

    Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund

  • Dimensions

    sheet: 50.3 × 28.7 cm (19 13/16 × 11 5/16 in.), arched top

  • Accession

    2017.12.1

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

(sale, Sotheby's London, 27 June 2006, no. 25); Louis and Linda Byron, Tucson, AZ, and by descent until 2013; (sale, Leslie Hindman Auctioneers, Chicago, 24 September 2013, no. 337); (Stephen Ongpin Fine Art, London); (sale, Christie's, London, 14 December 2016, no. 28, unsold); (via Stephen Ongpin Fine Art, London); purchased 2017 by NGA.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

2014

  • One Hundred Drawings and Watercolours Dating from the 16th Century to the Present Day. Guy Peppiatt Fine Art and Stephen Ongpin Fine Art, London, 2014, no. 57 (color).

2023

  • Drawing in Britain, 1700 - 1900: New Additions to the Collection, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 2023.

Inscriptions

lower right in image: 18 EJP 64

Wikidata ID

Q64631874

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